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The Search for Meaningful Purpose: Reminiscences of an Indian Engineer

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As a school student in Cuttack in the State of Odisha, I read about the great visionary Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata and his magnificent contributions to science, industry and society. Tata Steel then, as now, was a household name in Odisha and one of my elder brothers, a Chemical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, who had taken summer training there, had mentioned that Tata Steel had a number of brilliant metallurgists doing exciting work, mastering the flow of liquid iron that had the colour of ripe orange and imparting shape, strength and toughness tored hot solid steel.

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Mishra, S. (2016). The Search for Meaningful Purpose: Reminiscences of an Indian Engineer. In: Ghosh, P., Raj, B. (eds) The Mind of an Engineer. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0119-2_5

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